Foote v. Foote

An appeal is authorized by the statute from the decree of the probate court sustaining or overruling exceptions to the report of commissioners setting apart exemptions to the widow of a decedent in the course of administration of an estate. Code 1923, § 7939; Waller v. Harris, 221 Ala. 313, 128 So. 606.

The court sustained the exceptions in this case, and the widow has appealed, and contends that the report of the commissioners, made after a view of the premises, should have the same effect as the report of a register in chancery on reference after hearing evidence ore tenus; that is, the same…